Helen Korngold Diary: October 6-12, 1919

Helen Korngold, Dec. 1919, New York City

Helen is enjoying her temporary teaching job at Maplewood High School.

October

Monday 6

At it again. I certainly like it.

Tuesday 7

Too bad Sudie likes this job. I like it too.

Wednesday 8

Getting along fine

Thursday 9

There are some [illegible] that are in that Soph class, but all the others are dear.

Friday 10

This was a fine day. Good lessons & senior dance. Danced with the principal & some of the classy boys & girls.

Saturday 11

I certainly liked this school.

Sunday 12

Satellites – Ed Stiff

Notes:

October 11

On March 2 of the year, Helen went to Temple Society with Ed Stiff (b. 1895).

In the news:

On October 2, 1919, President Wilson was found by his second wife Edith after he suffered a stroke. The newspapers reported that he was doing fine when actually Wilson was totally incapacitated. "The president had a good night's sleep," Rear Admiral Grayson reported to the paper. "His condition is favorable." On October 6, Wilson was reported as "Eager to Return to Work."

It was an outright lie. In fact, Edith ran the country until Wilson's term of office ended in 1921.

Oct. 11, 1919, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, fashion sketches from the Veiled Prophet's Debutant ball Organized in 1878, the social group patterned their ball after Mardi Gras. 

In 1919 the Queen was Marian Franciscus.

An October 7, 1919, St. Louis Post-Dispatch article avers that women are more beautiful without corsets.

"The first physician with whom I talked was pretty, blue-eyed, blonde-haired Dr. Radmila Lazarewitch, representing Serbia at the conference. Her husband is attached to the Serbian Legation in Washington. "Women," she said, "are not only more healthy without corsets; they are more beautiful and charming. That is why I do not believe they should be put on any healthy young girl. If the corset is to be worn at all, it should be by the fat woman of forty who is not strong enough to hold herself properly, or by the woman who has had an operation and whose muscles have not regained their strength and elasticity. Think for how many hundreds of years women lived without corsets before they were invented!"

Dr. Lazarewitch went on to explain how exercise and good posture can help women keep an attractive shape."